Sentence examples for provocative call from inspiring English sources

Shamsie made the provocative call last year, citing gender imbalances across literary prizes, reviews, World Book Night author selections, and even protagonists in award-winning novels.

The provocative call to arms, although not literal arms, was made by Greenaway to an audience at the headquarters of Bafta.

A FRANK and provocative call to arms by the chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies caused a stir here yesterday at the opening general session of the organization's 2002 Management Conference.

PARIS — Leaders of the Group of 8 industrialized countries are set to issue a provocative call for stronger Internet regulation, a cause championed by the host of the meeting, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, but fiercely opposed by some Internet companies and free-speech groups.

Many lament the closure, but some see it as provocative call for government action from Mr. Draguet, who has been pushing for a stand-alone museum of contemporary art, either in the building of the defunct Magasins Vanderborght furniture emporium, or in a new purpose-built architectural flagship.

The military's provocative call for harsher measures against the Islamists could tilt the nation toward civil war.

His message was a powerful and provocative call-to-arms directed at the farm-to-table movement that, despite influencing a larger eating and drinking culture, has yet to fundamentally change the political and economic forces shaping our food system.

The 252-foot billboard displays a new powerful and provocative call-to-action message urging lawmakers to close the "gun show loophole" in federal gun laws that allows terrorists and criminals to purchase firearms at gun shows, "no questions asked," without a criminal background check or ID.

But Pompeo's track record of hyping threats, issuing provocative calls for regime change, and underselling the burdens of military action against Iran all bode poorly for the direction he would help take a Trump administration as CIA director.

In the Declaration of Pillnitz (1791) Austria and Prussia issued a provocative general call to European rulers to assist the French king reestablishing himself in power.

The Times ran a front-page story in March with the provocative headline "Call for national debate on Muslim sex grooming".